For one reason or another, the topic for this week’s blog caused me great consternation. Before putting pen to paper (or fingertips to keyboard, as the case may be) I ummed and ahhed for much longer than necessary. Caught in the vice-like grip of indecision, I battled with myself. Should I really … [Read more...] about Grammar Check: Punctuation
Grammar Tips: The Most Commonly Misused Words (Part Two)
Let’s jump straight in this week, and continue with our foray into the glue that holds the literary world together: grammar geekery! (In case you missed out, last week we covered off the common pitfalls of ‘which and that’, ‘affect and effect’, ‘whether and if’, ‘continual and continuous’ and … [Read more...] about Grammar Tips: The Most Commonly Misused Words (Part Two)
Grammar Tips: The Most Commonly Misused Words (Part One)
Grammar geekery isn’t sexy. It isn’t sleek or smooth or prestigious. Hell, sometimes quasi-interesting is overstepping the mark when it comes to the realm of adverbs, pronouns and conjunctions. But, as someone who churns out copy for a living, let me tell you: grammar is but a teeny-tiny component … [Read more...] about Grammar Tips: The Most Commonly Misused Words (Part One)